After the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, Meb Keflezighi told a reporter he wanted to come back to win the race for the people of Boston in 2014. And that's exactly what he did. hereandnow WBUR
"26 Marathons," by Meb Keflezighi. One of the world's greatest distance runners, Keflezighi is the only man to win the New York and Boston marathons, plus an Olympic silver medal in the 26.2-mile race.
After that disappointing experience in New York City in 2002, Keflezighi went back to Eritrea for the first time since his family had left — and found new perspective. He made the Olympic team again in 2012, but just missed a medal in the London marathon, finishing fourth. "You make appearances, and [people say], 'I was at work and I was screaming at the computer, and more people came to watch with me and then they saw your victory,'"he says."It kind of connected people ... whether it's runners or nonrunners."After 2014 in Boston, Keflezighi kept running. He made his fourth and final Olympic team in 2016 and finished 33rd in the marathon in Rio. He struggled to finish that race, stopping almost every mile in the later stages.
Josphat Boit, a former teammate from the Mammoth Track Club, left the pack and joined me. Josphat is a native of Kenya who ran at the University of Arkansas. It was amazing to have two naturalized U.S. citizens leading the Boston Marathon on this day. No matter how the rest of the race turned out, we were doing our part to showcase the American dream.
And really, at the end of the day, what did I have to lose? My previous marathon had been the slowest of my career. My thirty-ninth birthday was two weeks away. I thought I might be running my final Boston race. I was going to give it my all. If I lost, I’d be able to sleep soundly that night, with no regrets.
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